Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

You Probably Never Imagined That Some of Your Favorite Artists Were Really "Mr. and Mrs.,'' But Here Is the Proof. Radio Brought Them Together and Wedding Bells Haven't Interfered a Single Whit With Their Work. How Many of Them Did You Know Were Married? OIL and water -matches and dyi mite — art and matrimony — these are the three combinations against which chemists, anxious mothers and heart-throb columnists, respectively, warn us. But just as modern science has found a way to combine the first two pairs safely and successfully, so the presentday husband and wife whose professions happen to be similar, can work together and still stay happy, take it from Mr. and Mrs. Howard Milholland, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schwarzman, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Linden, and Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Young, all of NBC. Each of these half-dozen couples are members of the artist staff of the San Francisco studios of the National Broadcasting Company; some are actors, some musicians. Sometimes they work together before the microphone, sometimes singly, or with other artists. Few NBC listeners think of Bobbe Deane, petite and gifted character actress, as plain Mrs. Maxwell; or Eva Garcia, the brilliant pianist, as Mrs. Milholland. On the other hand, Howard Milholland, NBC's program manager, would be exceedingly surprised, not to say ruffled, if someone addressed him as "Mr. Garcia." And Tom Kelly, handsome young radio actor, wouldn't care particularly about the title of "Dorothy Desmond's husband." However, all that is beside the point. On the air, these six wives of NBC live their own lives as literally as Lucy Stone, the founder of the famous league for the preservation of married ladies' maiden names, could rlesire. Away from Marriage a la microphone! Ann Chase and Carleton Young — a happy NBC Mr. and Mrs. the studio, they and their husbands behave much like other happily married couples the world over. "Which may be why we stay married!" observes Bobbe Dean, or Mrs. Ted Maxwell, depending upon how well you know7 her. Bobbe and Ted keep their studio lives as separate from their private existence as possible, aided in this endeavor by the fact that their leisure hours are spent together at their country home near Redwood Gty. miles from San Francisco. They have a suite in a San Francisco hotel, where they stay when late programs make it necessary for them to remain in the city overnight, but their real home is the big, comfortable, hospitable place in the country, with a garden and plenty of space for the numerous pets they collect. The Maxwells met for the first time in a Santa Cruz stock company. Both were seasoned troupers despite their youth, for Ted went on the stage when he was 15, and Bobbe when she was a veteran of three years. At 13, she horrified a pair of parents who were ac tors, and wanted her to take her profession seriously, by presenting an iceskating act on a Western vaudeville circuit, and later she startled them again by giving diving exhibitions at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. When she finally turned to the "legit," Bobbe became one of the outstanding young stock actresses of the West, and when she went to New York, she played in Ziegfeld productions for three years on Broadway, returning to California in "Sally." The tall, dark young leading man in the Santa Cruz stock company fell in love at first sight with his vivacious young leading woman, whose sense of humor kept the company on its watch against unexpectedly mirthful moments in dramatic scenes. In 1926, Bobbe consented to take Ted's off-stage wooing seriously, and they were married. Because both had lived "in trunks" since Bobbe Dean and Ted Maxwell, or just plain Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, are fond of the open spaces, and take long motor trips — alivays taking along their pet marmoset. Pag* Twelve RADIO DOINGS